YieldStreet is hiring a Paralegal to assist cross functionally with our Legal and Operations teams. You will be focused on maintaining and creating documents, records and filings for a multitude of YieldStreet entities and funds managed by YieldStreet’s registered investment adviser. This role will report to the General Counsel. You will be at the epicenter of the organization, ensuring that all investment and regulatory filings are completed in a timely manner and help us to ensure that we are compliant with state and federal securities laws. If you are looking to leverage your corporate experience and make an impact with a high-growth fintech start-up, apply below.

What you'll do

• Prepare necessary legal documents for investment funding and transactional closings 
• Prepare and organize Board materials and corporate governance documents
• Provide significant support in connection with investment funds, including making EDGAR filings and tracking sales for state blue sky filings
• Provide significant support in connection with transactional closings, including obtaining signatures from the appropriate parties and updating files and closing sets
• Assist Legal team with research of general legal issues
• Establish and maintain a database for corporate records, company policies, procedures and legal document filings including: EDGAR filings, Form D filings, UCC-1s and UCC-3s
• Collect information necessary to form entities (including all SPVs), apply for relevant EINs and EDGAR codes, draft and file required formation and governance documents and structure charts and maintain up-to-date records in an entity database
• Partner with Legal and Operations teams to assist with contracts management system
• Assist with entity formation, dissolution and entity foreign qualifications
• Gather documentation and review invoices for the Operations team and respond to outside parties and other requests
• Maintain and refine company business processes
• Manage closing documents, binders and deliverables for corporate deals
• Assist with the creation and negotiation of confidentiality agreements, non-disclosure agreements and various service contracts
• Assist with know-your-customer and other similar informational reviews and requests 
• Draft consents, resolutions and tend to various corporate housekeeping matters
• Support and manage a variety of ad hoc projects within the team as they arise

What you'll need

• Undergraduate degree, preferably in business, finance or a related field
• 4+ years of corporate experience with a deep understanding of investment fund and asset level structures
• Experience at a law firm or a corporate legal department 
• Experience with EDGAR filings preferred
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Familiarity with computerized databases and on-line services
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong analytical problem solving and research acumen 
• Excellent organizational skills, deadline and detail-oriented
• Ability to work independently and proactively as well as part of a team
• A strong work ethic
• Comprehensive knowledge of MS Office (including Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio and PowerPoint), Workshare and Adobe
• Notary preferred or willingness to obtain

About YieldStreet 

YieldStreet is disrupting the trillion-dollar lending and investment industry. We recently raised $178m in financing from world-class venture capitalists to help us scale. Our investor demand is soaring, and our team is expected to double in size this year. Do you have what it takes to join a booming startup that is changing the investment industry? 

We're building the largest global digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. With an investor-first approach, our investor community builds a diversified portfolio of investments outside of the stock market to generate passive income. YieldStreet is giving unprecedented access to asset classes such as Real Estate, Marine, Legal, Art & Commercial. We’re headquartered in New York City with offices in Brazil, Argentina, Malta and Greece.  

Benefits 

We offer an attractive market compensation and benefits package including a competitive base salary, bonus opportunity, stock option plan, health, dental & vision benefits, life insurance, 401(k) match, unlimited paid vacation, sabbatical and paid holidays and that's before you even step in the office! 

This is an opportunity to work with a group of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B, and we get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites in our work hard/play hard culture. We're located in a beautiful new office in Midtown, our building is close to most major subway lines.